Those with only one of the two alleles of the sickle-cell disease, while not totally resistant, are more tolerant to the infection and thus show less severe symptoms when infected. The prevalence ...

Amid a genetic breakthrough in the treatment of sickle cell disease, The Mirror investigates the agonising reality of living with the condition that leave sufferers in unbearable pain ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

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A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

Michigan couple Paul and Christy Akeo are behind bars in Mexico, accused of breaching a timeshare contract and reportedly ...

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

The launching of the Sentara-Eastern Virginia Medical School Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in October gave adults ...

Sickle cell is the most common genetic blood disorder in the UK with approximately 17,500 people living with the condition. The disease which typically affects people of African and Caribbean ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Sickle Cell Disease in Social Security Disability ... landscape for the management and treatment of SCD and its symptoms for ...

The University of Tennessee is hosting a federally funded conference to educate U.S. primary care doctors about SCD to ...